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Press, 29 February 1984, Page 10

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Mystery death

The mystery death of a British businessan near a secret French submarine base is baffling leading pathologists. In spite of two day-long post mortems in Britain on an Imperial Chemical Industries executive, Nial Campbell, aged 42, they are still no closer to solving the riddle of how he died. More tests will be made. Mr Campbell’s widow Elizabeth, aged 40, had called in a pathologist to discover if her husband was murdered or had committed suicide. — London.

Top jobs

Western displomatic sources say that the new Soviet leader, Konstantin Chernenko, now also holds the post of chief of the nation’s Defence Council. The

nation’s top security job complements Mr Chernenko’s position as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. There has been no official announcement of Mr Chernenko’s rise to the post. — Moscow.

Uprising ‘crushed'

Russian tanks, acting on orders from the former leader, Nikita Khruschev, crushed a mass uprising in a Soviet prison camp 30 years ago, according to the posthumous account of a camp survivor. Prisoners in separate male and female camps disarmed their guards and resisted police intervention in a protest for better food and reduced labour, Frenchman Jean-Jacques Remetter said shortly before his death at the age of 62. — Strasbourg.